Qatar describes Egypt accusations as incorrect allegations

The Qatari deputy ambassador to the United Nations, Abdul-Rahman Al-Hamady, said that Egypt had accused the State of Qatar of violating the arms embargo on Libya, describing that as false allegations.

Al-Hamady stated that this comes in the context of the current campaign against Qatar, adding that the recent reports of the UN on the violations on the decisions of the Security Council didn’t point to Qatar.

It is worth mentioning that the assistant of the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Tarek Al-Quoni, had accused Qatar of violating the decision of arms embargo on Libya, stressing that Qatar is supporting terrorist groups in Libya.

Al-Quoni called, in a meeting at the UN, for taking actions against Qatar. The accusation was denied by Qatar, confirming that this comes in the context of the campaign against Doha.

It is significant to mention that the UN sanction committee said, in its annual report, that the UAE supports the forces of General Khalifa Haftar to gain its military abilities to control more army bases in Libya.

The committee had documented that the UAE had violated the arms embargo on Libya by arming Haftar.

The report stressed that Abu-Dhabi had provided Haftar’s troops with military helicopters, 4×4 vehicles, and armatures. The UAE support to Haftar enabled him to control eight air bases in different areas in Libya.

The report revealed that Haftar forces received Belarus made vertical jets and 195 fighting guns, besides other planes.

The report included photos of an air base south the city of Al-Marj, the forces of Haftar headquarter in the east, as the UAE developed the facility. The photos also depicted some fighting jets, other shows engineering work to widen the base.

The photos revealed planes and vertical fighters, developed by American companies exclusively for the UAE, proof that it provided Haftar with fighting jets for military proposes.

The British Middle East Eye previously confirmed that Haftar used mercenaries to drive Emirati jets, based in one of his bases in the east, to bomb Benghazi Defense Brigades positions, last March.

It seems that it was not enough for the UEA, other reports said that it is involved in backing Haftar with mercenaries to drive its jets, as Haftar pilots are not well trained.

Reports also pointed that Emirate facilitated communication between Black Water Company manager, based in UAE, and Haftar. Middle East Eye quoted sources that Black Water company pilots are operating Emirati jets in Haftar’s air base.

Two American journalists revealed in a report relations between Black Water manager, Eric Prince, and Libya when he came for a foothold, but failed and moved to cooperate with Haftar since 2016.

They said that without revealing the nature of contacts, Prince proposed a plan to the European Union, early on 2015, to address illegal migration in Libya, with the approval of high-ranking military official in Libya, but the proposal was refused.

It was revealed that this military official was Khalifa Haftar when the United States protested China’s approval to open a bank account for Prince, subject to legal investigations, to be revealed that the bank account was meant for Haftar to send money to Prince to hire mercenaries and provide weapons.

Prince’s lawyer, according to the two journalists, protested saying that the American authorities should have summoned Haftar for investigation on money laundering charges, because he is an American citizen, as his two sons Khaled and Saddam.

Last January, Intelligence Online magazine, said that Black Water company provided Haftar with pilots from South America to fly IOMAX AT-802 Emirati jets, based in an eastern base.

The magazine also stated that Prince made contracts with the UAE to use a patch of Somali fighters, Black Water company trained in counter-terrorism programs in 2011, some of them arrived in Libya.

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